I had occasion to visit with some folks at both Apple and Google yesterday here in Silicon Valley. While at the Googleplex, I saw the strangest thing when I first arrived. There were about ten people, assumably Google employees, riding a contraption that...

the shark...I went out to check my mail at lunch and lo and behold, there was the new copy of Newsweek with a cover story entitled "The Facebook Effect." Too weird. Not only has the shark been jumped...it's circling in the waters, has totally tipped and is now...

Google's Panda algorithm update has affected many sites with low quality content. Google rolled out this update internationally months ago. This is one of the major Google updates in recent times. This has improved the rankings of the sites with good high...

Thanks to Robert Sayre I noticed that the new Google Reader is using Atom 1.0 under the covers as the means of loading feed content into the interface. This is the exact same technique that I'm using for the new Atom-based snellspace.com implementation that...

The Google Mint continues to demonstrate steam in its latest earnings, with net income having climbed to $1B in the latest quarter, reports Bloomberg. CEO Eric Schmidt explained that "We overspend relative to what people think we should capital..." and...

Holy Web conferencing, Batman! Cisco's buying WebEx for a cool $3.2B U.S., according to Reuters. Meanwhile, back at the Google search ranch the Googlers have gotten that privacy religion, announcing that they will now anonymize server log data after 18...

This is a big day for Yahoo, as anyone in the orbit of the search marketing and advertising world will tell you. Today, they formally flip the switch on their new "Marketplace Design" algorithm in the U.S....aka, Panama. Search Engine Land does a nice run down...

SXSW is winding down. The afternoon moved so quickly, I was never able to catch up on blogging Dan Rather's keynote. But C|NET has a nice wrap up here. In the meantime, lots of digitally relevant news today. First, the New York Times is telling us...

Social media leader Facebook was recently sued by Yahoo for patent infringement. This suit was filed during the month preceding Facebook’s long awaited IPO. This may sound like a familiar tactic for the struggling company; in 2004, right before Google’s...

I spent much of today on an airplane...a JetBlue airplane, in fact...so talk about being out of the loop for a full news cycle. Though I did have access to satellite TV nearly 7 miles up, alas, there were no IP bits to keep me informed of the fact that...

Google's In-Depth articles search results help users learn about a broad topic. Google has recently introduced this new feature in its search rankings results. According to research,10% of people's daily search needs are for more in-depth content....

The Bulldog Reporter predicted today that Google+ is on track to obtain 22% of traffic from adults in the United States. If this assessment is correct, Google+ would surpass social media giants Twitter and LinkedIn, placing Google+ in second position to...

There’s a reason teachers like Google tools. They’re free, easy to use, and you already have an account on basically all of them. Add in the fact that Google is making a huge push into the world of teacher tools and you quickly realize it’s a...

These days we're all about the metrics, the tabulations, the quantification of results. Now it's not just data, it's Big Data. Those with a message want to know how well that message is being received. We at developerWorks...

In today's episode of Goliath v. Goliath, Microsoft's associate general counsel is expected to take issue with Google's Book Search project, arguing in prepared remarks for a speech to the Association of American Publishers that Google has "a hell of a...

Kelly Spors of the Wall Street Journal Interactive has a feature on the importance of search engines as a marketing and awareness driver for small businesses. The feature is actionable in its intelligence, providing a solid primer (reg required) for the...

Hello everyone! Google revealed Google Tap today for the sake our of typing in a small screen with all the 26 keys together. It's simple and easy to by using Morse code method so you don't even need to look at the screen. Google Tap only has one dot, a dash...

Duncan Riley with TechCrunch posted overnight that there are new reports surfacing that "China has unilaterally blocked all three major search engines in China and is redirecting all requests to Baidu." This on the heels of an earlier and related tale of...

Over at The Motley Fool, there is this article, The Big Losers in the Cloud Pricing Wars , that talks about recent price drops for services at Amazon and Google and how these price drops will affect the cloud computing business. Anyone interested...